I've been working on "The Toa" non-stop lately, and you know what? At the start of this year, I looked at a list of all the scenes and developments I had planned and wondered how I'd ever find the time to clear them. At this point though, I can safely say this story will definitely wrap up this year, making room for a Nova Orbis comic in 2021. Looking at everything that's transpired so far.... The Toa's at least halfway done, I'd say. Next time I start uploading, I should finish the second "act" fairly quickly. While we're all still here, I'm just wondering what regular readers' overall thoughts are this far in? How has "The Toa" changed in

It's basically modified from the opening I used for most of Lego Rewind, but the audio's less distorted and the overlays fade quicker. The combination of rapid-fire images and "glitchy" effects made early drafts of it unwatchable, so I darkened the images to make the title clearer. Spent most of yesterday just tweaking it. On another note, I know I've spent most of this month on the backlog, but.... I swear I'm almost caught up on last year's (and this month's) commissions. Soon we'll be back to programming like The Toa, and Volume 5 of Planet Ripple will be released.

Years ago, in the interim between Bionicle Generations 1 and 2, when there was no G2 on the horizon, I and other fans kept Bionicle alive in our own ways. Mine was by picking up the original story thousands of years later, with a new generation of Matoran that had settled on another planet. Most of the characters were new faces, and the familiar few that did return were cast in a new light. The structure was pretty simple, at first. For every six months, I'd whip up a "short" story with a "wave" of characters associated with it, trying to recreate the feeling of keeping up with the magazines in the 2000s and such. Typically three Matoran cha